The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that it will hear the petitions of three convicts, who are challenging the death sentence given to them for their role in the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Nineteen-year-old Harithra, daughter of death row convict Murugan, has written an emotional letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi appealing for clemency for her father in the Rajiv Gandhi assassin

Some may call it a political U-turn, but it was a masterstroke by astute chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, whose image reached an all-time high among the Tamil diaspora on Tuesday by ‘dramatically’ seek

Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan may not be hanged on September 9 as announced.

Prison authorities are unlikely to carry out the executions when the convict’s review petitions are pending before the